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Re: [OM] Bikes, (was: (OM) Computers)

Subject: Re: [OM] Bikes, (was: (OM) Computers)
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:58:00 -0400
Burned into the brain. Some of them are on my weather app so I can keep up with 
the local climate. Looks like Scotland is starting to see the sun after a long, 
dreary winter filled with dreadful wind and rain. <g>

--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal

On Mar 24, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am impressed, Bob, that you remember all those place names.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 24 Mar 2014, at 19:05, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I have not yet had occasion to interact with UK police. On our 2006 visit to 
>> London, they were all over the place, all of them in full kit with automatic 
>> weapons. There never seemed to be fewer than two, though I seem to recall 
>> seeing the occasional standard-issue bobby—maybe I was hallucinating. While 
>> in Scotland, I saw four police cars in two weeks. Two parked, one rolling 
>> past our inn on Skye, and one with someone pulled over on the motorway 
>> between Stirling and Glasgow. The parked unit was in Killin, and didn’t move 
>> in two days. Come to think of It, I’m not sure I ever saw a light on in the 
>> small station there. Maybe it was an inflatable car, just to keep motorists 
>> on their toes.

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